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The preface explains the book’s purpose: offer clear, accessible insight for readers with limited mathematical background while preserving the sequence in which the ideas originally emerged. Copyright and text-history notes describe the 1920 English translation, corrections of misprints via footnotes, and reproduction of original pagination with linked page images for direct comparison.","RELATIVITY  \nTHE SPECIAL AND GENERAL THEORY  \nALBERT EINSTEIN  \nDIGITAL REPRINT  \n􀁅􀁬􀁡􀁮􀁴 􀁅􀁢􀁯􀁯􀁫􀁳  \nCOPYRIGHT INFORMATION  \nBook: Relativity: The Special and General Theory  \nAuthor: Albert Einstein, 1879–1955  \nFirst published: 1920  \nThe original book is in the public domain in the United States. However, since Einstein died in 1955, it may still be under copyright in many other countries, for example, those that use the life of the author + 60 years or life + 70 years for the duration of copyright. Readers outside the United States should check their own countries’ copyright laws to be certain they can legally download this ebook. The Online Books Page has an FAQ which gives a summary of copyright durations for many other countries, as well as links to more official sources.  \nThis PDF ebook was created by José Menéndez.  \nNOTE ON THE TEXT  \nThe text used in this ebook is from the first English translation, published in 1920, of Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie. A few misprints in the original text have been corrected, but to preserve all of the book, the original misprints are included in footnotes enclosed in square brackets and signed “J.M.”  \nIn addition, the line breaks and pagination ofthe original book have been reproduced, and the PDF’s page numbers are linked to page images of the book from the Google Books Library Project for easy comparison. Please note: Google ’s images may not be available to people outside the U. S. and may be unavailable to U. S. residents at times.  \nRetaining the original pagination made it possible to include a fully functional (clickable) copy of the original index.  \nRELATIVITY  \nTHE SPECIAL AND GENERAL THEORY  \nBY  \nALBERT EINSTEIN, Ph.D.  \nPROFESSOR OF PHYSICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN  \nTRANSLATED BY  \nROBERT W. LAWSON, M.Sc.  \nUNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD  \nNEW YORK  \nHENRY HOLT AND COMPANY  \nCOPYRIGHT, 1920  \nBY  \nHENRY HOLT AND COMPANY  \nPREFACE  \nTHE present book is intended, as far as pos  \nsible, to give an exact insight into the  \ntheory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus 1 of theoretical physics. The work presumes a standard of education corresponding to that of a university matriculation examination, and, despite the shortness of the book, a fair amount of patience and force of will on the part of the reader. The author has spared himself no painsin his endeavour to present the main ideas in the simplest and most intelligible form, and on the 1 The mathematical fundaments of the special theory of relativity are to be found in the original papers of H. A. Lorentz, A. Einstein, H. Minkowski,* published under the title Das Relativitätsprinzip (The Principle of Relativity) in B. G. Teubner ’s collection of monographs Fortschritte der mathematischen Wissenschaften (Advances in the Mathematical Sciences), also in M. Laue’s exhaustive book Das Relativitäts prinzip—published by Friedr. Vieweg & Son, Braunschweig. The general theory of relativity, together with the necessary parts of the theory of invariants, is dealt with in the author’s book Die Grundlagen der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie (The Foundations of the General Theory of Relativity)—Joh. Ambr. Barth, 1916; this book assumes some familiarity with the special theory of relativity.  \nv  \n[* Minkowski ‘ —J.M.]  \nvi RELATIVITY  \nwhole, in the sequence and connection in which they actually originated. In the interest of clearness, it appeared to me inevitable that I should repeat myself frequently, without paying the slightest attention to the elegance of the presentation. I adhered scrupulously to the precept of that brilliant theoretical physicist, L. Boltzmann, according to whom matters of elegance ought to be left to the tailor and to the cobbler. I make no pretence of having withheld from the reader difficulties which are inherent to the subject. 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